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FOR GOVERNOR

1.

YOUR TELNO 863 OF 10 AUGUST: BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT

Griffiths met with Freeland on 13 August. Home

Office legal representative and official and FCO

officials were present.

2.

Freeland and H O legal rep agreed that Griffiths'

opinion, which introduced a different proposition to

that on which their previous legal advice was based,

was valid from the legal aspect. Though the citizenship

descriptions in passports had to match those in the

Nationality Act there was strictly no legal objection

to the inclusion in passports of a nationality status in

However, there were possible legal complication:

addition.

/eg,